I've studied computer science, and I can honestly say I had absolutely no prior experience with programming from highschool, except perhaps for knowing how to program the TI-83 to display "you're an idiot" all over the screen:)
Yet today I work as a fulltime Software Developer, and the list of languages and technologies I have experience with is too long to list.
Being inexperienced before you start your studies isn't necessarily a bad thing. I've met dozens of kids comming from highschool with the: "I can allready program HTML/Perl/C/J....." attitude, and these same kids sat back, relaxed, and a year later they started failing all their classes because they didn't care to pay attention.
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I've studied computer science, and I can honestly say I had absolutely no prior experience with programming from highschool, except perhaps for knowing how to program the TI-83 to display "you're an idiot" all over the screen :)
Yet today I work as a fulltime Software Developer, and the list of languages and technologies I have experience with is too long to list.
Being inexperienced before you start your studies isn't necessarily a bad thing. I've met dozens of kids comming from highschool with the: "I can allready program HTML/Perl/C/J....." attitude, and these same kids sat back, relaxed, and a year later they started failing all their classes because they didn't care to pay attention.